Sporting Days and Sporting WaysDuckworth & Company, 1910 - 317 էջ |
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Ralph Nevill. - UNIV . OF PORTI ND SPOK DAYS VAYS RALPH E AUTHOR OF " THE I FART AUTHOR OF " PICCA DESORMAIST LONDON DUCKWORTH & CO . 3 HENRIETTA STREET , COVENT GARDEN IN DAYS OF YORE . 9 UNIV . OF SPORTING. 1910.
Ralph Nevill. - UNIV . OF PORTI ND SPOK DAYS VAYS RALPH E AUTHOR OF " THE I FART AUTHOR OF " PICCA DESORMAIST LONDON DUCKWORTH & CO . 3 HENRIETTA STREET , COVENT GARDEN IN DAYS OF YORE . 9 UNIV . OF SPORTING. 1910.
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... NEVILL AUTHOR OF THE MERRY PAST , " ETC. PART AUTHOR OF " PICCADILLY TO PALL MALL DESORMAIS " LONDON DUCKWORTH & CO . 3 HENRIETTA STREET , COVENT GARDEN All rights reserved THE Author is desirous of expressing his. 1910.
... NEVILL AUTHOR OF THE MERRY PAST , " ETC. PART AUTHOR OF " PICCADILLY TO PALL MALL DESORMAIS " LONDON DUCKWORTH & CO . 3 HENRIETTA STREET , COVENT GARDEN All rights reserved THE Author is desirous of expressing his. 1910.
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... London was an altogether different city from the one we now see . Luxury was only for the privileged few , but the populace had a good deal of rough enjoyment of a sort unknown to our more fastidious age . The ordinary conveniences of ...
... London was an altogether different city from the one we now see . Luxury was only for the privileged few , but the populace had a good deal of rough enjoyment of a sort unknown to our more fastidious age . The ordinary conveniences of ...
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... London paper of April , 1810 : " To be sold , a Sugar Plantation , in the island of Grenada , comprising 558 acres of land , and 230 slaves upon it , including several valuable trades- men ! The situation of this estate is so healthy ...
... London paper of April , 1810 : " To be sold , a Sugar Plantation , in the island of Grenada , comprising 558 acres of land , and 230 slaves upon it , including several valuable trades- men ! The situation of this estate is so healthy ...
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... London life were the sporting hotels , which , even up to about some fifty years ago and later , were recognised resorts for fashionable sportsmen . At Hatchett's and the Blue Posts were to be found the sporting squires come up to London ...
... London life were the sporting hotels , which , even up to about some fifty years ago and later , were recognised resorts for fashionable sportsmen . At Hatchett's and the Blue Posts were to be found the sporting squires come up to London ...
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Էջ 77 - Who sleeps on brambles till he kills his man, Some frolic drunkard, reeling from a feast, Provokes a broil, and stabs you for a jest. Yet ev'n these heroes, mischievously gay, Lords of the street, and terrors of the way, Flush'd as they are with folly, youth, and wine, Their prudent insults to the poor confine; Afar they mark the flambeau's bright approach, And shun the shining train, and golden coach.
Էջ 18 - In town let me live then, in town let me die, For in truth I can't relish the country, not I ! If one must have a villa in summer to dwell, Oh give me the sweet shady side of Pall Mall ! HANNAH MORE.
Էջ 148 - She was a professed enemy to flattery, and was seldom known to praise or commend; But The talents in which she principally excelled Were difference of opinion and discovering flaws and Imperfections.
Էջ 143 - He told me, he had a chaplain that was a very honest man, but a very great blockhead, to whom he had given a living in Suffolk, that was full of that sort of people. He had gone about among them from house to house, though he could not imagine what he could say to them, for he said he was a very silly fellow, but that he ' believed his nonsense suited theirs...